Jimmy Carter turns 99: 4 healthy habits that helped former president live a long life

Seven months after entering hospice care, Jimmy Carter is beating expectations and marking a milestone birthday.

Such small joys are “invaluable” to keep a terminally ill patient going, says Dr. BJ Miller, a hospice and palliative medicine physician in San Francisco. He is not treating Carter.

But it’s “not rare” that people live longer in hospice care than expected, like Carter, Miller says. He’s seen it many times in his own practice. “At some point, a lot of that effort can be fatiguing on the body, certainly emotionally draining and sometimes even demoralizing,” Miller says.

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